After a hard day of work  my wife and I decided we needed some cheering up, so we rented a movie - a comedy called “He’s just not that into you.” It’s the story of 4 young women who are in different stages of a “love” relationship. There’s the married one played by Jennifer Connelly (Beautiful Mind!), desperately trying to “reform” her cheating husband, then there’s the unmarried one (Jennifer Aniston), who’s been living with her partner for seven years and thinks it’s time to go to the next level, but doesn’t have the courage to push the issue. The third girl (Gennifer Goodwin) desperately wants a boyfriend, but never gets passed the first date, because she’s coming on too strong and last but not least the girl (Scarlett Johansson) who simply can’t make up her mind if she’s really into relationships or just wants to sleep with her girlfriends husband.

I was growing increasingly confused to say the least. Were these girls for real? I thought women were the new men, that they ruled the world, had all the answers. Weren't we men suppose to be the weaker gender? At least that’s what the talk shows, news and advertising had convinced me to believe. Was I misled? Did these four beauties represent the new generation of women - clueless and condemned to waiting for his call? Did the pendulum swing back and I just hadn’t noticed? Wasn’t it my gender that lacked insight? Weren’t we the ones that constantly failed to understand?

Not in this story. Here it’s the guys who seem to know what’s really going on, where as the four female characters share an amazing amount of ignorance and insecurity when it comes to the other gender. The authors (man/woman team from Sex in the City!) of this masterpiece suggest that women have been kidding themselves about men for generations, convincing each other that even the most obnoxious jerk is marriage material - all it takes is female patience and endurance.

Oh, I nearly forgot, Drew Barrymore also had an important role to play in this Shakespearean comedy. She’s the only woman capable of maintaining lasting relationships with her three male friends during the entire story. Not surprisingly, they're gay.